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OUT INTO THE NIGHT.
ynor't Dlsaatlsflfd ba-euse or
th sovnunaiy barren ullooK of
hta position aj a achool teacher In a
Canadian town, John Harrla deter
mine la leave It. use up land in
Manitoba and become a "home
eteader." Mary, tha trl whom he
lovea, declares aha will accompany
him. Thy ara married and aat
out for tha unknown country. Thay
select a homestead, build bom
nd put In a crop. Returning from
selling hi fit t crop, Harrla find
bla wlfa almost Inaana from lonell
nesa and with Immediate aapacta
tlon of becoming a mother. A son
la born and they name hire Allan.
Tha atory now Jumpa forward t
years. Harrla ta prosperous and all
for getting rich. Mary Is toll-worn
and saddened over the change In
her husband. Allan works on tha
farm. Beulah, tha pretty daugh
ter. Is rebellious at tha ahut-ta
farm Ufa. Jim Travers Is an un
usual hired man and ha Is secretly
In love with Beulah.. Harris and
Allan claah with Jim and ba leavee
CHAPTER VI Continued.
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ITarrls was accustomed to his
daughter's frankness, and as a rule
paid little regard to It- He was willing
enough to be flayed. In moderation, by
her keen tongue; In fact, he took a
secret delight In her unrestrained sal
lies, but that was different from de
fiance. "We'll tnlk about that some other
time, too," he said. "And you'll tullk
the cows tonight as usual."
Beulah opened her Hps as though to
answer, but closed them again, arose,
and walked out of the kitchen. For
her the controversy was over; the die
was cast. Her nature admitted of
any amount of disputation up to a
certain point, but when the Irresist
ible force crashed Into the Immovable
object she wasted no wind on. words.
With her war was war.
Harris finished his tnenl with little
relish, nis daughter was very, very
much to him. and an open rupture
with her was among the last things to
be Imagined. . . . Still, she must
learn that the liberty of speech he al
lowed her did not Imply equal liberty
of action. . . . His wife, too. had
behaved most incredibly. After all.
perhaps he had been hasty with Jim.
No doubt he would meet the boy In
rialnville or somewhere In the dis
trict before long, and he would then
Too Far," She Agreed. "But You
Started It; Let's See Yau Stop It"
Lave a frank little talk with hlra.
And he would say nothing more of the
incident to his wife. He was begin
ning to feel almost amiable again
when recollection of Beulah, and the
regard which she was evidently culti
vating toward Travers, engulfed his
returning spirits like a cold douche,
It must not come to that, whatever
happened.
"You better go over to C rant's, Al
lan. If you're goln'," he Bald as he left
the table. "I've some shears to
change that'll keep me busy until you
get back."
An hour later Allan returned, ac
companied by George Grant, and oper
ations In the field were resumed. Fa
ther and son were both anxious to
make ud for losi. time, and the, work
ed that night, long after their usual
hour for Quitting. It was quite durk
gk 'Jit
when the two men, tired and dusty,
came in at the close of their long day's
latwr.
The table was sot for two. "We
have had our supper," Mary explained.
"We thought we wouldn't wait any
longer."
"That's all right." mid Harris, try
ing to be genial. But he found It hard
er than he had supposed. He was
very tired, and somewhat embarrassed
following the unpleasantness at noon.
He had no thought of apologising,
either to wife or daughter; on the con
trary, he Intended to make It quite
clear to them that they had been at
fault In the matter, but he woujd take
his time about reopening the subject
When supter was finished Allan
went to the stables to give final atten
tion to the horses a duty that had
always fallen to Jim and Harris, af
ter a few minutes' quiet rest In his
chair, began to remove his Uoots.
The cows are not milked, John,"
said bis wife. She tried to speak In a
matter-of-fact way. but the tremor In
her voice betrayed the import of the
simple statement. '
Harris paused with a boot half un
laced. While his recollection of Eeu
lah's defiance was clear enough. It
had not occurred to him that the girl
actually would stand by her guns. He
had told her that she would milk the
cows tonight as usual, and he had as
sumed, as a nintter of course, that she
would do so. He was not accustomed
to being disobeyed.
"Where's Beulah?" he demanded.
"f guess she's In her room."
Harris laced up his boot Thrn he
started upstairs.
"Don't be too hard on her, J hn."
urged his wife, with a little catch In
her voice.
"I won't be too hard on anybody,"
he replied curtly. "It's a strange thing
you wouldn't see that she did as she
was told. I suppose I have to plug
away In the field until durk a ad then
come In and do another .half-day's
work because mf women folk art too
lazy or stubborn do 't themselves."
If this outburst vas IntendeJ to
crush Mary Harris It had a .'erj dif
ferent effect She seem-Ml to straighten
up under the attack; thd color came
back to her cheeks, and her eyes were
bright and defiant
"John Hurris." she said. "Tou know
better than to sny that your women
folk are either lazy or stubborn, but
there's a point where Imposition, even
the imposition of a husband, has to
stop, and you've reached hrU point.
Vpu didn't have to stay In 'iie field
until duri. There's another dav com
ing and the plowlng'il keep. It Isn't
like the harvest 't was Just your own
contrariness that kept you there. You
fired tlit best man you ever hod today,
In a fit of temper, and now you're try
ing to take It out on us."
Harris looked at her lor a moment;
then, without speaking, he continued
up the stairs. He felt that he was
being very unfairly used, but he had
no intention cf shrinking from his
duty as a husband and father, even If
Its discharge should bring luln to all
c'. them.
He found Beulah In ier room, os
tensibly reading.
"Why are the cows not milked be
demanded.
"1 thought I made It clear to you at
noon that they wouldn't be milked by
me," she answered, "and there didn't
seem to be anybody else hankering for
the Job."
"Beulah," he said, trying to speak
calmly, "don't you think this nonsense
has gone far enough?"
"Too far," she agreed. "But you
started It let's see you stop It."
Beulah," he said, with rising anger,
"I won't allow you tb talk to me like
that Kemember I'm your father, and
you've a right to do as you're told.
Haven't I given you everything given
you a home, and all that and are you
goln' to defy me In my own bouse?
"I don't want to defy-you," she an
swered, "but If you're going to let
your temper run away with you, you
can put on the brakes yourself. And
as for all you've done for me maybe
I'm ungrateful, but It doesn't look half
so big from my aide of the fence."
"Well, what more do you want7" be
demanded.
"For one thlngl wouldn't mind hav
ing a father."
"What do you mean? Ain't I your
father?"
"Nol" she cried. "Mo I No I There's
no father here. You're Just the boss
the foreman on the farm. You board
with mother and me. We see you at
meal-times. We wouldn't see you then
if you didn't have to make use ot us
In that way. If om huve a spare hour
you go to town. You're always so busy,
busy, with your little things, that you
huve no time for big things. . I'd like to
see you think about living Instend of
working. And were rot living not
really living, you know we're Just ex
luting. lHu't you see what I mean?
We're living all In the flesh, like an
animal. When you food .he horses and
put them under shelter you can't do
anything more for them. But when
you feed and -shelter your daughter
you have only half provided for her,
and It's the other half, the starving
half, that refuses to starve any
longer."
"I'm not klckln' on religion, If t afa
what you mean. Beuluh," he said.
"You get goln' to church at jften as
you like, nnd"
"Oh, It's not religion." she protest
ed. "At least. It's not Just going to
church, and things like that, although
I guess It 3 a more real religion, d
we Just anderttood. What are we
hero for, anyway? What's the an
swer?" "Well. I'm here Just now to tell you
those cows are to be milked before
"Yes, dodge It I You're dodged that
question so long you daren't face It
But there must be an answer seme-
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With a Light Cloak About Her Shoul.
ders and a Suitcase in Her Hand,
Slipped Quietly From the Front
Stairs and Out Into the Night
where, or there wouldn't be the rucs-
tlon. There's Kites, now; lie doesn't
know there Is such a question. He
takes It for grunted we're here to grab
money. And then, there's the Grunts.
They know there s such u question.
and I'm sure that to no extent
they've answered l You know, 1 like
them, but I never go Into their louse
that I don't feel out of pluce. I feel
like they huve something Unit I liuvin't
something that inn Us then very
rich and shows me how very poor I
am. And it's embarrassing to feel poor
among rich folks. Why, tonight George
Grain stopped on his wuy home to suy
a word to me, and what do you sup
pose he said? Nothing about the
weather, or the neighbors, or the crops.
He asked me what I thought of the
Venezuelan treaty. Of course I'd
never heard of such a thing, but I said
I hoped It would be for the best, or
something like that, but I wus ashamed
so ashamed he might have seen It In
the dusk. You see, they're living
and we're existing."
If Beulah bowed by such argument
to persuaue her father, or even to In
fluence him, she was doomed to disap
pointment "You're talking a good
ileal of nonsense, Beuluh," he said.
"When you get older these questions
won't worry you. In the meantime,
your duty Is to do as you're told. Klght
now that means milk the cows. I'll
give you five minutes to get started."
Harris went to his room. A little
later Beulah, with a light cloak about
her shoulders and a suitcase In her
hand, slipped quietly down the front
stairs and out Into the night
CHAPTER VII.
Crumbling Castles.
At the foot of the garden Jeulah
paused Irresolute, the suitcase swing
ing gently In her hirud. She had made
no plans for the decisive step events of
the day had forced upon ijer, but "the
step Itself she felt to be Inevitable.
She wus not In love with Jim Travers;
she had turned the whole question
over In her mind that afternoon, weigh
Ing It with Judicial, Impartiality sup
posing all manner of situations to try
out her own emotions, aud die had
come to the conclusion that Travers
was merely an Incident In her. Ilf. a
somewhat Inspiring Incident, perhaps,
but nn Incldfut none the less. The
real thing the vital matter which' do
mnnded some exceptional protest was
the narrow nnd ever narrowing horUon
of her father, a horlxon bounded only
by material gain. Against this nar
rowing band of outlook her vigorous
spirit, with Its dumb. Insistent stretch'
Ings for the Infinite, rebelled. It was
not a matter of filial duty; II was not
a matter of love;. to hr It was a mai
ler of existence. She saw her Ideel
dimly enough at best, and she would
burst every cord of affection and con
vention rather than allow then o be
submerged In the gray, surrounding
murk of matcrlnllsm.
1'crhapa It was custom and the
subtle pulling of association that
drew her feet down the path across
the bench to the edge of the stream
that gurgled gently In the still night.
The stars blluked a strnngo challenge
from the sky. as though to say, "Here
Is the tree of knowledge. If you dare
to drink- thereof."
At length she turned her back on the
stream and took the path past the
house and down to the corral, where
she paused, her ear arrested l the
teady drone of milking. A lantern
sitting on the black earth cast a little
circle of light and threw a docile cow
In dreadful silhouette against the barn.
And by that dim light Beulah dis
cerned the bent 'form of her mother,
milking.
MI can't tall you where Baa
Uh is. Job. Sbe left bare last
ibl."
(TO UK LUMlNUtUl
TREASURES OF BUDDHIST ART
Marvelous Collection Preserved for
Centuries in the Temple of
DaigoJI In Japan.
PalgoJI, the bend temple of theaOnn
school of the Shlngon sect of Bud
dhism In Japan, situated not for fmrn
Kyoto, In the UJI district, suggests by
Its name Is relation to I'injeror
Dalgn, who reigned from WW to H'ttl.
Its name originated from ,e fact that
Its founder, Abbot Shoho, came to this
village and exclaimed after ho drank
from an old farmer's spring: "The
water was as good as dalgol" It Is a
Buddhist word meaning an unctuous
rich liquor. The posthumous title of
the emperor must have originated
from his devotion to the temple nnd
Its founder, as well as from his burial
In the temple grounds.
Bare specimens of Buddhist art and
literature, corefully preserved as the
temple treasures of Pnlgojt, and ex
hibited recently at Toklo. through the
efforts of Ir. Katsuml Koroltn of
the editorial staff of hlstorlographlcal
materials In Toklo Imperial university,
bring the story of the tcmplo down
to JKH) years ago. Among the pecu
liar paintings In the temple are the
"flower viewing -rcens." pictures of
horse training and a collection of fan
nalntlngs said to be rrre treasures.
In the literary collection there Is
nn Illustrated copy of the third roll
of "Scrlptura of Cause and Effect of
the Past and the Present." It was
made nearly 1 "00 years ago, but the
colors In the picture are as fresh ax
flie present day pigments. This scroll
Is considered the oldest thl ? extant
In Japun of colored art on paper.
Economy.
Melville Roggs, generally reputed to
be the best Informed jierson In tha vil
lage concerning the affairs of his
neighbors, was telling a friend, but
recently returned after an absence of
some years, of the troubles of Susan
Smith and PetVr Jones. "Susie, she
has 'broken off her engagement with
Peter," he said. "They's been goln'
together for about eight years, durln'
which time she has been Inculratln'
Into Peter, as you might sny, the beau
ties of economy. But when she dis
covered, Just lately, that he had learnt
his lesson so well that he had saved
up 217 pairs of socks for her to darn
after the wedding she appeared to con
elude that he hud taken her advice
a little too literally, an' broke off the
match."
Calmness.
A restless, bright-eyed urchin was
scrambling tip on the back of the
railway seat, and reaching out his
arms and legs In all directions. Ev
ery few minutes he knocked off the
tall silk hat of the fat man In the
seat beyond, and presently an nm
brella came tumbling down from the
upper rack, nearly braining the fat
man. When the latter could stand
the strain no longer, he turned to the
occupant of the seat behind and said
emphatically: "Madam, will you kindly
look after your son? He Is extremely
annoying." The lady, already bur
dened with three other mischievous
Imps, said In a most casual; voice
"Johnny, sit down. The gentleman's
nervous." Judge.
The first tenement house In New
Verli rllv wus built III 18,'IH. It Wll
I a four-story building nnd stood In
I what Is now CoiiurH purk.
SCOUTS
(Conducted by National Council of lfi
liny ".couta or America i
THE HAPPY SCOUTMASTER
The National council of the Boy
Scouts of America, at Its eleventh an
nual meeting, held In New lork Uty
a short time ago. adopted a rvsomtloii
expressing heartfelt appreciation of I he
loyal and eelf sacrificing service or tne
volunteer workers In the movement,
throiinhout the nation. This Is a rec
ognition due from all of u who have
sous or who are Interested In the wel
fare of boys, all of us, who understand
that what our youth Is being taught
today, will determine what our Ameri
ca will be tomorrow.
In au article In a recent Issue of
scoutliis- appears this flue owumciitary
on the happy scoutmaster who "vali
antly serves his country In time of
peace. Placing duties above rights,
service above self, he fares forth to
win for his country the heart of youth.
the hope of the world.
"The hstipv acoutniuster iterceives
that what makes his efforts worth
while is not only that through whole
some play he may save a boy from the
error of his war. but also that life
being real and earnest and practical
a boy must learn to labor, and it is
the Iibdivt scoutmaster who kindles
within the heart of youth -the fires of
ambltloo passion to make the most of
himself, the will to work, to serve bis
country aud to honor and reverence
his God.
"The barn scoutmaster finds the
motlvo power of his own life In the
scout oath and law nnd counts tliut
day lost w"hereln no good turn Is done.
Nobly Inspired, his boys follow the
same visum splendid and like knights
of old find the Holy Grail In helping
other tit-onle at all times. He I. In
deed, the happy scoutmaster; when so
prepared, be wins the confidence of the
boy and offers opportunity for youth
to prove how gloriously It will do the
right wherever there Is such a mutt
to lead.
"Munv serve their country vnllnntly.
Rome have lived, and given much; oth
ers have died, nnd given all But,
who more than the happy scoutmaster
for his country's sake lays down his
life? Having hue life to give to ins
country, he gives It freely that youth
may be served.
"While, others rouecru themselves
with seeming weightier mutters, the
happy scoutmaster lays foundations
that make safe the future building or
democracy."
THERE WITH "FIRST AID.
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Boy Scouts Know "First Aid" and Are
Useful. When Accident Comes to Man
or Beast.
SPEED.
An Englishman, recently arrived In
the U. S. A., at New York city, asked
a smart looking newsboy to show hliu
about the city.
When they came to the Amerlcun
Surety company building, the English
man asked: "Pray, my lad, how long
did It take to build that building?"
"About two years," the boy replied.
"My, that was quite long, we could
build It In a year." Next they came
to the National Park hank building.
"How long did It take to build that
bulldlng7" the Englishman asked.
"About a year," wus the answer. "That
was a long time. We English would
have built It In six months." Then
they came to the Wool worth building.
"And how long were you building this
wonderful structure?" "I don't know
sir." replied the boy, "It wasn't there
lust night." Boys' Life.. '
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